BACKGROUND Although tick-borne diseases are important causes of morbidity and mortality in dogs in tropical areas, there is little information on the agents causing these infections in the Caribbean. METHODOLOGY We used PCRs to test blood from a cross-section of dogs on St Kitts for Ehrlichia (E.) canis, Babesia (B.) spp., Anaplasma (A.) spp. and Hepatozoon (H.) spp. Antibodies against E. can...

background and objectives: numerous procedures in biology and medicine require the counting of cells. direct enumer- ation of colony forming units (cfus) is time-consuming and dreary accurate cell counting on plates with high numbers of cfus is error prone. in this study we report a new indirect cell counting method that was developed based on the use of redsafe fluorometric assay. the usefulne...

A large number of Primary Care consultations are for chronic abdominal pain and heavy digestion, which can be related to infection with Helicobacter pylori and/or parasites in some patients (1,2). These are given an empiric therapy and/or their stool is examined for the presence of H. pylori and its treatment when detected (3). The prevalence of these parasites varies according to the socio-dem...

Background: The evaluation method for the diagnosis of tinea unguium is mainly microscopy. New antidermatophyte monoclonal antibody have been developed that recognizes the cell wall polysaccharide antigen of filamentous fungi, including dermatophytes, and applied it to immunochromatography. Some scientists focused on this technology, improved it, and determined that this test method provided us...